When Emily Moffitt (GBR) walked the course for the $137,000 CSI5* Palm Beach Masters Classic, she was not feeling overly confident. Alan Wade’s (IRL) 1.55m track didn’t pull any punches, and Moffitt worried it was a big step up from her warm-up class with Tipsy du Terral two days earlier.

“It was tough. There were quite a few big verticals and wide oxers, and seeing as I raced her around a 1.45m course [in Thursday’s $36,600 CSI5* Suncast Welcome Stake], I was walking, and I was thinking, ‘Hmm, Tipsy is not going to be expecting this!’” Moffitt said.

“She just stepped up, as always, so it was great.”

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